NCT04582422

Interventional Touch Therapy in the Treatment of Children's Dental Clinics

Exploring Preschool Children the Use of Interventional Touch Therapy in the Treatment of Children's Dental Clinics Reducing Medical Fearing Randomized Controlled Trials

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study mainly wants to discuss the anxiety and fear of children's dental visits. For preschool children, separation anxiety can be obvious at this time. The main research is 1. To explore the degree of fear of dental visits in preschool children;2. Children who are touched therapy, there differences in fear of children 's dental treatment? If parents or important others can provide touching care to increase children 's sense of safety, reduce children 's fear of dental visits, and improve the quality of dental care The main purpose of the study.

Detailed description

In this study, a parallel randomized study design was adopted. The intervention of the experimental group was a "Touch Therapy " measure. The control group To provide dental health education in accordance with the routine procedures of children's dental visits, how to use toothbrushes, dental floss education, a total of 90 samples were collected. Children who meet the inclusion criteria of this study are randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. The main purpose is to provide "Touch Therapy " intervention measures, and the difference in fear of dental treatment for preschool children. Use the chip chip tool (PCT) to ask the children's degree of fear of dental treatment. The control group uses questionnaires to ask the caregiver's age, social and economic status, education, past dental experience, etc. In the intervention group, the questionnaire was used to ask the caregiver's age, socioeconomic status, education, past dental experience, etc. During the waiting process, first follow the touch flow chart and perform the touch in the waiting area for 10 minutes. When visiting the treatment chair, the companion will be asked to touch the child's unilateral hand for 5 minutes during the consultation process. A small chair is provided to accompany the child for a total of 15 minutes. The two groups will use the chip tool again after the consultation , Ask the children how scared they are after seeing a doctor, submit the collected data to a third party for analysis, and design a single-blind study.

Conditions

• Dental Fear
• Nursing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Touch Therapy"	During the waiting process, first follow the touch flow chart and perform the touch in the waiting area for 10 minutes. When visiting the treatment chair, the companion will be asked to touch the child's unilateral hand for 5 minutes during the consultation process. A small chair is provided to accompany the child for a total of 15 minutes. The two groups will use the chip tool again after the consultation

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-20
• Primary completion: 2021-06-25
• Completion: 2021-06-25
• First posted: 2020-10-09
• Last updated: 2022-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan